CONTENTS VII 



Chapter III — Flaked stone implements — Continued. Page 



Leal-blade implements grouped by material 86 



Quartzite implements 86 



Quartz implements 87 



Rhyolite implements 88 



Flint and jasjier implements 89 



Argillite implements 89 



Rude flaked implements 90 



Chapter IV — Battered and abraded stone implements 94 



General proeesses of manufacture 94 



Special processes 96 



Classes of implements 96 



Materi:il8 used 96 



Examples of the implements 97 



Manufacturing shops 99 



Comparison of celt making with blade making 102 



Miscellaneous pecked implements 103 



Chapter V — Incised or rut stone utensils 105 



Scope of the topic 105 



Processes and materials 105 



Use of mica 105 



Steatite utensils 106 



Character, use, and distribution of the material 106 



Surface indications of quarrying 106 



Special investigations 107 



Early knowledge of steatite 107 



Development of the quarrying industry 108 



Mining and shaping operations 108 



Quarry jiroduit 109 



Im]dements used in quarrying and cutting Ill 



Character of the tools Ill 



Manner of using the tools 112 



Steatite quarries 113 



The Clifton quarry 113 



The Connecticut avenue quarries 116 



Literature 116 



Site and surface indications 117 



Excavations made 118 



Tools recovered 119 



Correlation with bowlder (juarries 123 



The Shoemaker quarry 124 



The Little falls sites 124 



The Bryant quarry 125 



Quarries of the Patuxent valley 125 



Quarries near Olney 128 



Falls Church and Holmes run quarries 131 



Amelia county quarries 132 



Madison county quarries 132 



Culpeper county q uarries 132 



Brunswick county quarries 132 



Relation of clay and steatite pottery 133 



Various articles of steatite 133 



Chapter VI — Distribution of stone implements 134 



The area investigated 134 



Distribution of materials _ 135 



Geologic distribution of stone 135 



Geology and art 137 



